Abstract

This research was conducted because some problems were faced by
students in learning English especially in writing of narrative text. The problems
were; some of the students are not able to use the chronological order in retelling
writing narrative text, some of the students have not yet been able to make the
presentation, complication, and resolution even though they have studied about
narrative text, and some of the students are not able to develop topic sentence to
be a paragraph past action.
The research was conducted with purpose to know whether or not there
significant correlation between students’ habit in reading and their ability in
retelling writing narrative text.
The design used in this research was serial correlational research. In
collecting data, the writer used test and questioners, the test was used in order to
collect the data of students retelling writing in narrative text at the second year
students of SMA Negeri 1 Cerenti. In analyzing the data, the writer used oral test.
While, the questionnaire was used to determine the students’ habit in reading.
From the research findings, it can be concluded that Ho is rejected and Ha
is accepted. It means that there is a significant correlation between students’ habit
in reading and their ability in retelling writing narrative text at the second year
students of SMA Negeri 1 Cerenti